Good news and bad news for global PC monitor market
Despite a continuing year-on-year overall PC monitor market decline, shipments in the sector were much stronger than forecasts, the International Data Corporation (IDC) reported.
Worldwide PC monitor shipments totaled nearly 33.7 million units in the first quarter of 2014 (1Q14), a year-over-year decline of -0.4% – however this is much higher than the initial forecast of 31 million units.
However, the IDC expects worldwide shipments to continue on their current downward trajectory, slipping to 106 million units for the full year 2018.
“Geographically, Japan and the Middle East and Africa (MEA) regions delivered the largest gains during the first quarter while Dell and HP both experienced solid shipment growth,” the IDC said.
In terms of vendors, Dell remains in the number 1 position with 14.9% of the market share.
Japan and Western Europe delivered the biggest gains for Dell with 32.4% and 14.7% quarter-over-quarter growth respectively, while the U.S. market remained essentially flat, the IDC said.
Samsung claims second spot in the market, followed by HP, LG and Lenovo.
Worldwide PC Monitor Unit Shipments, First Quarter 2014
| Vendor | 1Q13 Unit Shipments | 1Q13 Market Share |
1Q14 Unit Shipments | 1Q14 Market Share | 1Q13/1Q14 Change |
| Dell | 4,448,731 | 13.1% | 5,032,526 | 14.9% | 13.1% |
| Samsung | 4,884,060 | 14.4% | 4,461,381 | 13.2% | -8.6% |
| HP | 3,566,268 | 10.5% | 3,882,452 | 11.5% | 8.9% |
| LG | 3,452,266 | 10.2% | 3,546,549 | 10.5% | 2.7% |
| Lenovo | 2,763,613 | 8.2% | 2,639,150 | 7.8% | -4.5% |
| Others | 14,725,374 | 43.6% | 14,126,404 | 42.1% | -4.1% |
| Total | 33,840,312 | 100% | 33,688,462 | 100% | -0.4% |
Technology highlights
- LED backlight technology adoption continues to increase with a new high of 92% market share in 1Q14. This represents a year-over-year increase of 16.4%.
- Screen size of 21.x-inches wide has held the largest worldwide share for the last six quarters, with 20.5% share in 1Q14.
- Aspect ratio of 16:9 continues to dominate with 81.3% market share, which is 6.5 times the second most widely used Aspect ratio of 16:10.
- Touch screen monitors are still a small segment of the total PC monitor market at 0.4% share, with sales mostly in the U.S. at 32.8% of the total. HP holds a 35.1% share of the U.S. market.
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